St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-25
WHISPERS.

Did you know that ex-senator WINDOW
had gone to Europe? He sailed last Thurs
day, understand, and goes on mission big
with possibilities. His objective points are
London and Liverpool, and later perhaps be
will run over to Paris, Vienna and Berlin.
His mission? Well, it isn't for pleasure you
can wager on that. 1t is business, and bust
ness of douhle-barreled kind at that. You
may remember that WINDOW recently aided
In the organization of a company with a cap
ital stock of S25, 100000 to control numer-
GUS miningproperties in Northern Minnesota
and Wisconsin. Well, j hear the American
investors, either because they have had rather
too much of mines lately, or because
they had their surplus wealth tied up
in other ways, fought rather shy of
the propositions made them by WINDOW
and his associates to come in
and be made rich. In fact, they showed the
most exasperating skepticism regarding the
value of the iron mines. and in disgust WIN
DOM has gone over on the other side to work
field which, while not uncultivated is not
yet worn out. / learn that if he succeeds in
floating even half the huge capital stock of
his company the commission that will come
his way will represent q good-siZed fortune.
But his visit has also another AIM and that
is to hold a conference with Brother BLAINE,
of Maine. who is skylarking around on the
continent. WINDOW realizes we'll enough
that he is dead politically in Minnesota, but"
he is an ambitions man, and he fancies if he
can impress BLAINE with the idea that he
can and will do him yeoman's service in
the next campaign, that in the event of
BLAINE success he will come in for some
thing handsome.
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succeed in his financial than i'll his political
deal.
Apropos of politics, 1 was talking the other
day to JOHN f. MEAGHER, of Mankato on the
political situation, and Incidentally the next
senatorial contest was discussed. Mr..
MEAGHER, than whom there is no more clear
sighted or more level-headed man in the
state, and whose political predictions are al
most invariably correct, thinks that KNUTE
NELSON will succeed SABN without doubt
| The situation. he says, is very clear. In the
| first place there were twenty-eight Scandina-
| vians i'll the last legislature. This number is
likely to be increased to forty year hence
Every one of these men will be solidly for
NELSON, and thus in the beginning he will
have a stronger backing than any other
one man. His position will be such
Scandinavians have never had senator, and
they will work this opportunity for all it is
worth. The silk stocking element among the
Republicans and their organ, the Pioneer
| Press, will revolt awfnlly, but viii have to
take their medicine, not because they want
to, but because they must. They will make
Wry faces and sour faces, but they will worry
1t down just the same, and NELSON will go in
with flying colOrs. This is Of course under
the superstition that the Republicans abide
by the caucus, and don't drown NELSON off
more successfully the nexttime. If there is
bolt which is unlikely then there would
be some chance for a Democrat
And Iyenture to coincide with the opinion
expressed by Mr. MEAGnER
heard rather a good story the other day
about youth well known in ST. Paul,
through his frequent visits to the city, though
his home is in Chicago. l won't tell you his
name beyond insinuating that his first name
is jim, for if you know him at all you will
readily guess it. Well, JIM has for some time
looked with ewes of favor upon fair Chica-
goan, but curiously enough had seldom seen
her alone, though the young lady's mother
and his own mother are very intimate
friends. Well, one day jim invited the young
woman to go to the theater with him and in
due time an acceptance came. But the "
WIS mamma has pronounced ideas regarding
young ladies going to the theater without a
chaperone. Still, knowing JIM's mother SO
well, she did not like to suggest TO him the ad-
visibility of chaperone. An idea occurred to
her. She found out what seats JIM had
bought, succeeded in buying the two seats
| directly behind them, and then invited jim s
| mother to accompany her. The invitation
| was accepted jim arrived at the house of
his 1namorata in due time, and what was his
| CONSERVATION to find his mother there and to
| hear the announcement that as the two la
| dies were also going to the theater they would
| share JIM's carriage with him. as it would be
useless to order another when they were
| going to the same theater. Crushed and sub
| dued, there was nothing for jim to do but sub
| NIT, but when he discovered that the two
| mothers had seats behind him he completely
| collapsed.
The chances are that that young woman
| whom he more than half suspects, will wait
| long time for another theater invitation
| from JAMES.
The Whlsperer has a good many things
| whispered to him in the course of events,
and among the recent interesting hts of in
| formation was one regarding ST. Paul mer-
| Shahe WhOoC WOulu Dt 30 IdHlll1dr 10
you, should 1 chance to whisper it. that you
would probably recall the fact that you had
personal acquaintance with him. This
merchant is very happily married and has
charming family, but occasionally he takes
| flying trips by himself. Recently he went
| on a journey that involved a several days'
trip by water. On the steamer he met dash
| ing Chicago woman accompanied by her
daughter, who, by the way, is delightful bit
of femininity. There are many people in
Chicago who know Mrs. NJ and every one
likes her. Well. the st. Paul merchant fell
victim at once. In some snbtle way the i'm
preston was conveyed to Mrs. M--that the
| St. Paul man was a widower and when he
began to feel the spell of her destinations
she was not averse to his attentions All the
comforts that well equipped steamer and
an attentive cavalier could provide were
heaped upon the two ladies' The st.
| Paul man scarcely left their side, and the i'm
preston he made was evidently an excellent
one. Arriving at their destination, which
was oddly enough the same, the attentions
were continued in the form of boxes at the
opera and perhaps even coy little suppers
afterwards, the supposed widower doing the
elegant to the best of his ability. Finally
the time for the departure of the
two ladies drew near, and the st.
Paul man, to cap the climax of his at
tentiveness, purchased a couple of costly
| pieces of jewelry which he begged the ladies
to accept as souvenirs of the trip. They ac-
cepted the gifts, but the day of their depart
ure accidentally discovered that their friend,
instead Of being widower was married
man, whose family would have very good
right indeed to resent his extraneous atten-
tons. Enclosed in an indignant note the
jewelry was left with the hotel clerk for the
merchant, and when he called to keep an
engagement for farewell dinner, he found
instead cold shoulder given him through